Susan Cahill, Editor
Wise Women
Over Two Thousand Years of Spiritual Writing by Women
A pathbreaking anthology representing a tradition of the prophetic and practical wisdom of women's spirituality.
Spiritual experience is a liberating source of women's identity and their resistance to oppression. Moving from the Native American tale "The Creation of Spider Woman" and the poet-nun of Mexico Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz to the contemporary African American thinker Marian Wright Edelman and the Buddhist shaman Joan Halifax, these visionaries see justice and love, loss, aging, and freedom. It inspires them to artistic expression and political action. This deeply moving collection of memoirs, stories, poetry, letters, prayers, and theologies is a source of empowering and uplifting thought for women in any time, at any age.
"A source of great spiritual enrichment."—America
"A very satisfying anthology, illuminating and useful."—Publishers Weekly
"From Ishtar of Babylonia and Isis of Egypt to Kathleen Norris, a panorama of women's thoughts, hopes and beliefs."
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Susan Cahill lives in New York City.
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